Abbey Hoffman chanting to elevate and rotate the Pentagon wasn't bourgeois art. Or was it? Where was his funding coming from? Images of the Louvre being liberated after the French Revolution, Russian Constructivists playing factory steam whistles and Karl Marx wagging his finger from the Watts Towers at Alfred Jarry seriously confused and diverted my attention until I was surprised to hear we were being assigned a half hour on a weekday afternoon. Friends told us that the first programme wasn't exactly bad, but that we spoke too quickly to be understood and that the overall sound was unpleasant. As a result, on the next program we left deliberate spaces between our words which slowed everything down to a crawl. |